Aaron Paul Set to Join Westworld Season 3

Aaron Paul has joined the cast of HBO's long, strange trip of a sci-fi drama, Westworld, for its third season. Deadline broke the news and has some intel on Paul's character, which is to say they actually don't have much intel at all—aside from confirmation of his series-regular status, nothing is being revealed about who he'll be portraying or what to expect. Will he be a Delos employee? A host who becomes Dolores's new boo? An average guy from New Mexico hoping to bang his way through Sweetwater? Regardless, there will be violent delights, and there will be violent ends!

Paul recently finished his stint on Hulu's cult drama The Path, which, while pretty good, didn't generate a lot of buzz in the general TV landscape over its three seasons. (Hulu chose to cancel it this spring, much to a meh? reception of the general public.) As Deadline notes, he'll also be starring in Apple's upcoming drama-anthology series Are You Sleeping alongside Octavia Spencer and Lizzy Caplan, which is also being shrouded in a good deal of secrecy.

As for Westworld—which proved to be both eventful and uneven with its sophomore outing—don't expect to see the third season premiere until 2020. But the show left us with a number of increasingly bonkers events in the finale to ponder in the meantime, including (SPOILERS AHEAD) a post-credit sequence that pretty much confirms the Man in Black (Ed Harris) is a host. Oh, and that pretty much every character we know and love has died thanks to tragic events. And that Tessa Thompson is the new Evan Rachel Wood. If you don't know what we're talking about, you have some rewatching to do, dear reader.